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A position of the hands of your watch corresponds t o two positions of the Sun. 2. A rotating mirror turns half t h e angle of the image. 3. Circulating a coin one full turn around another makes t h e coin turn twice around its center. 9 The group Spin(2) Spin(2) 2: SO(2). Is Exercise 6 History Imaginary numbers first appeared around 1540, when Tartaglia and Cardano expressed real roots of a cubic equation in terms of conjugate complex numbers. The first one to represent complex numbers by points on a plane was a Norwegian surveyor, Caspar Wessel, in 1798.

Vector plane IR2 = Ce; Complex plane C = The names even and odd mean that the elements are products of an even or odd number of vectors. Parity considerations show that - complex number times complex number is a complex number, - vector times complex number is a vector, - complex number times vector is a vector, and - vector times vector is a complex number. The above observations can be expressed by the inclusions ce;ce; c ce;, ce; ce; c ce; , ce;ce; c ce; , ce; ce; c ce;. By writing ( C e 2 )= ~ and (Ce2)l = Ce; , this can be further condensed to (Ce2)j(Ce2)kc (Ce2)j+k,where j , k are added modulo 2.

The left contraction can be directly defined by its characteristic properties where x , y E R3 and u, v, w E /\ R3. Recalling that Q = (- 1)" the second rule can also be written as for u E l\kR3, when u E l\kR3. The second rule means that the left contraction by a vector is a derivation of the exterior algebra /\R3. It happens that the left contraction by a vector is also a derivation of the Clifford algebra, that is, x J (UV)= ( x J u ) v + i i ( x J v ) for x ER3, U , VE C13. 9 A scalar product on R3 C /\ W3 induces a contraction on /\ R3 which can be used to introduce a new product x u = x J u x /\ u for x E R3 and u E I\ R 3 , which extends by linearity and associativity to all of /\ W3.